GISKE’s "The Sound of Birdsong" doesn’t so much begin as it seeps into the room, like the pale, perpetual twilight of a Norwegian summer night where sleep feels like a theoretical concept. This is a song for the space between the last page of a book and turning off the light; a four-minute float in that strange, conscious stillness when the world is quiet...

Independent New Jersey singer-songwriter Dorian transforms the suffocating gravity of a lover’s quarrel into a pulsing summer fever dream on his new single, “OOO”. Serving as a prelude to his highly anticipated upcoming album, “Reconnected”, the track operates on a deeply human contradiction. Dorian tackles the agonizing psychological toll of a volatile romantic relationship the manipulation, the broken promises, the desperate craving for an...